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Tel.- literally means son/daughter of the commandments
2 commandments associated
- Donning of the Tefilin
- Called to Torah for an alliyah |
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Law and Ethics (commandment)
Tel.- 613 mitzvah in Torah
- Ethical, social, and ritual commands |
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3 pilgrimages: agricultural, historical, and spiritual reasons |
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Holidays- agricultral, spiritual, and historical dimensions
Passover- barley, exodus, ?
Shavuot- wheat, Sinai, ?
Sukkoth- ingathering, wilderness, ? |
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| List: Rabbinic Holidays, Fasts |
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| Chanuka, Purim, Tisha B'av |
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Synagogue and Prayer- three times/ day (afternoon)
Tel.- afternoon relgious service |
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| List: Contemporary Holidays |
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Yom Ha-shoah
Yom Ha-atzma'ut
Yom Yerushalayim |
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| List: elements of synagogue service |
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Siddur- prayerbook
Kriyat shema- accepting the yoke of heaven
amidah/shemoneh esrai- the silent meditation |
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Synagogue and Prayer- three time/day- morning
Tel.- morning religious service |
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| List: things to consider for kashrut preparation |
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Ritual slaughter
Salting
Mean and Milk
Separate dishes/ cutlery
Pareve |
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Life cycle events- death
Te.- aveilut- the year of mouning for one's parents |
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| List: names for daily prayer services |
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Shacharit (morning)
Mincha (afternoon)
Ma'ariv (night) |
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Life cycle events- death
30 days, year (for parents)
Tel.- Hebrew word for seven
During the shiva week, mouners remain at home and sit on low stools |
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Life cycle events- marriage
Tel.- the Marriage Contract
Grooms required to give wives at wedding
Spells out husbands obligation to wife |
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Purity Laws
Ritual slaughtersn, salting, meat and milk, separate dishes/ sutlery, pareve (neutral)
Tel.- Jews can only eat food that has been prepared a certain way. |
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| "the heart is drawn after the actions" |
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Law and Ethics
Notes- cultivate the heart to understand the right way of thinking.
- Fundamental lack of trust in the human personality, Must train people by actions. |
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Sabbath
Tel.- Takes advantage of the legally mandated permission to carry inside a private domain, by creating a large puclic area into a "private domain." |
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Holidays- lulav (palm branch) etrog (citron)
Tel.- lulav, 2 willow twigs, 3 myrtle twigs, and etrog |
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Synagogue and Prayer- Blessings:
Over pleasure (food, drink, aroma)
Before fulfillments of commandments (focus your attention)
Praise (e.g. over things in nature) |
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Sabbath
Tel.- Objects forbidden to be handled because they are forbidden to be used |
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Life cycle events- birth
Circumcision
Tel.- Oldest ritual in Judaism, Instructed for Abraham
- Mosty physical distinction for Jewish males |
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Holidays- High Holy Days
(shofar, tashlikh, teshuvah (repentance))
Tel.- goal- reconciliation between people and God
- Only sins forgiven are sins against God
- Only fast day mandated in Torah |
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Contemporary Holidays- Holocaust Commemoration Day
Tel.- No set rituals
- In Israel at 11 AM all peole stop and stand at attention |
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| List the 3 Pilgrimage holidays |
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Holidays- 3 Pilgrimages
Tel.- Agricultural holiday celebrating the harvest in the land of Israel
- Remembers the time of Israel in the wilderness |
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Holidays- Sukkot
Tel.- marks the completion of the annual cycle of Torah readings
- positive occasion- delight at having finish; joy at opportunity to start again |
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Holidays- Sukkot
Tel.- Symbolizes the tents in which the Jewish people lived during 40 years of wandering in the desert |
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Holidays- High Holy Days
Tel.- 10 days between Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur
- How one acts on these days may influence God's decree in the Book of Life |
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Life cycle events- birth
Redemption of the First Born
Tel.- Father pays to have son released from obligation to priest. |
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Sabbath ritual (songs at meals)
Tel.- Special Sabbath table songs
- most songs deal with themes of Sabbath |
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Holidays- 3 Pilgrimages
Staying up all night readin Torah and eating dairy
Tel.- celebrates the giving of the Torah |
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Sabbath ritual
Tel.- "separation"- ceremony done Saturday night- separation between Sabbath and the weekdays
3 items used
1.) candle
2.) wine cup filled to overflowing
3.) box filled with fragrant spices |
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Law and Ethics
Tel.- One must avoid doing anything that might lead to a forbidden act
- Anything that is forbidden to be used on the Sabbath is also forbidden to be handled. |
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Law and Ethics
Tel.- purely legal matters
- legislates precise modes of behavior |
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Holidays- interclation
Notes- in a 19 year cycle there are 7 leap years- to make up for every year's loss of 11 days |
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Holidays- 3 pilgrimages
Tel.- Most widely observed Jewish holiday
- celebrates God's freeing Jewish slaves from Egyptian slavery and beginning of Jewish nationhood |
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Notes- absolute monotheism
- invisible God- has no image |
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Holidays- High Holy Days
Tel.- Jewish New Year
- Goal- is ethical and relgious reassessment of one's life |
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Sabbath ritual
Tel.- Sabbath rituals in the house
Follows hand washing ceremony
Traditionally there are two challot
- commemorate Israel's extra portion received in Sinai desert every Friday - Symbolizes that we too have sufficient food |
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Holidays- Passover
Tel.- Fled Egypt so quickly that bread didn't have time to rise
- Commemorate by eating matzah symbolizing that it is better to live in freedom and eat poor food than to remain in slavery and eat well |
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Sabbath ritual
Tel.- 3 meals rather than 2 on the Sabbath because it is a joyous day |
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Sabbath Ritual- in the house
Tel.- After the candle lighting, the father customarily blesses the children. He puts his hand on each child's head and recites a blessing. |
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Rabbinic Holidays, Fasts
Mourning the destruction of the Temple, book of Lamentations
Tel.- Saddest day in Jewish history
- Commemorating the destruction of the 1st and 2nd temples
- Full fast day
- Only happy association is that tradition says messiah will be born on this day |
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Contemporary Holidays
Jerusalem Re-unification day
Tel.- Declared in aftermath of 1967 Six- Day war |
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Life cycle events- Marriage
Bill of Divorce
Tel.- Follows standard format |
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Purity Laws
Tel.- Ritual bath
- Only after immersing herself in the mikvah is the woman to resume sexual relations. |
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Rabbinic Holidays, Fasts
Book of Ester
Drinking
Alms
Gifts to one another
Costumes |
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Sabbath (labors)
Tel.- In the Mishna the rabbis designated 39 forbidden labors |
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Sabbath ritual
Tel.- Sabbath rituals in the house
- kiddush prayer recited over the wine
- emphasizes 2 themes: creation and exodus |
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Rabbinic Holidays, Fasts
8 days, menorah
Tel.- 167 BCE Antichus plans to degrad ethe temple. Jews plan to restore purity.
- Only had 1 days worth of oil to burn but miraculously lasted the necessary 8 days |
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Law and Ethics
saving life
Tel.- "where life is at stake"
- law suspended when human life is at stake
- reflects high value on human life |
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Purity laws- kosher
Supervision, signs for permitted animals, fish, fowl, blood
Tel.- Torah associates with holiness
animals permitted- cloven hooves and regurgitate food
fish- only with fins and scale- shellfish forbidden
fowl- chicken turkey and duck permitted |
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Purity Laws
Tel.- The "seven clean days" after a womeans period she must go to the mikvah to be conisdered not tahmay, impure. |
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Holidays
Notes- Have a solilunar calenar |
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Brit (covenant)
Notes- Hebrew word for guide
- constantly in force but never broken
- TaNaK |
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Holidays- High Holy Days- Yom Kippur
Tel.- Hebrew for throw
- On the 1st day of Rosh Hoshana Jews go to a river and symbolically cast their sins into the water. Derived from verse in Micah. |
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Holidays- Passover
Tel.- Heb. maror- represents the bitterness of jewish servitude in Egypt. |
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Holidays- Passover
Tel.- Text read at passover seder
- Moses metnioned once. God remains the hero of the Exodus story.
- "Why is this night different from all other nights?" |
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Sabbath Ritual
Tel.- Traditionally before the Sabbath meal the husband reads Proverbs 31 to express admiration of his wife. |
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Blessing the children
"a woman of valor"
kiddush
challah (2)
three meals |
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Life cycle events- death
Tel.- More than 2000 years old
- Often recited in memory of the dead but theme is the greatness of God |
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Holidays- Comtemporary
Israel Independence Day
Debate on how to celebrate or if it should even be a religious holiday |
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Synagogue and Prayer
central table, platform
faces differently amond denominations |
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Synagogue and Prayer- service
accepting the yoke of heaven- Deut 6, 11; Num. 15
Kryiat- covering the eyes |
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Synagogue and Prayer
Mon/ Th AM, Sabb. afternoon
lengthier "weekly" portion on Sabbath am |
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Synagogue and Prayer- Torah reading
Ark |
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Synagogue and Prayer- three time/day
Morning religious service |
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Purity Laws
Hebrew term for a menstruating woman |
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Synagogue and Prayer
leader |
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Synagogue and Prayer
afternoon religious service |
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Synagogue and Prayer- three times/day
Evening religious service |
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Life cycle events- death
The year of mourning for one's parents. |
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Life cycle events- birth
Naming ceremony for baby girls |
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